Nothing can give the proprietor more pleasure, for the birds, which are a prodigious chorus, are making of their nests and singing in blithe chorus.
But the Signora's singing was heavenly, and Madame's dancing was divine, and what lacked there more?
Lady Juliana, who would have been highly incensed had she suspected the application of the words, was so unconscious of it as to join occasionally in singing them, to Mary's great confusion and Adelaide's manifest displeasure.
For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of[3405] anthems.
Here Brother John stopped short in his story, and began singing one of his crazy songs, as he gazed with his pale eyes far away into nothing at all.
I would that I might see the beautiful Angel Gabriel sometime," said he; but Brother John was singing again and did not seem to hear what he said.
The early springtide sun shot its rays of misty, yellow light across the rolling tops of the forest trees where the little birds were singing in the glory of the May morning.
The spot chosen was at some distance from the house, up in the woods, where a pure, bright spring bubbled up from the rocks, and then went rippling and singing away in one of those hundred mountain streams.
The former were hopping about all over the trees, singing among the branches, and seeming scarcely disturbed by the approach of the wagons.
The birdies are singing so to tell us how they like it.
At this moment they heard a step approaching, and then the voice of a young man, singing gaily as he went along.
Manoël ran down like a madman; the porter was singing at the door--he asked if Beausire had passed.
Edward Wilson fitted the "singing pews" with drawers in 1851.
A "singing school" was started, causing considerable expense in candles (12s.
Perhaps she was in a mood to be easily touched; but the singing did reach her and move her profoundly.
And now I go singing to myself, like, all the day and the night too, 'I love the Lord, and my Lord loves me.
I went to the Cathedral, and my reason was that I simply couldn't stay in the bungalow because the lady below was singing 'Less than the dust.
Little Fay was playing on the Wren's lawn and singing to herself: The fox went out one moonlight night, And he played to the moon to give him light, For he had a long way to tlot that night Before he could leach his den-oh.
Jan and the children were in the verandah, all with their backs to the room, and did not notice his entrance as Jan was singing nursery-rhymes.
In the flat below a lady was singing the "Indian Love Lyrics" from the "Garden of Khama.
The Connaughts simply were irresistible, and all the time they kept singing 'God Save Ireland.
The men then sing hymns at Mass, and it is fine to hear nearly a thousand men singing out in the open at the top of their voices.
At the entrance of the town, hard by one of the first houses in the street, sat a cobbler working and singing in his hutch.
At this triumphant moment he hears the voice of the king, singing as he walks away from the dwelling of Maguelonne.
Still veiled, she modestly took a place among the choir who stood on each side of the hall ready to welcome Caesar with singing and music.
Here the men ceased and the women began as though to confirm their praise of the most High, singing the ninetieth Psalm with enthusiastic joy: "O Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
They were singing and applauding boisterously, and the songs they so loudly insisted on having repeated would certainly not contain matter flattering to the Romans.
Melissa drew her veil closer and clung more tightly to her brother, for a sound of singing and wild cries, which she had heard behind her for some time, was now coming closer.
There must be something in my singing that carries the hearers away.
The shouts and squabbling of men, the laughing and singing of women, mingled with the word of command.
All walked past in mourning robes, even the choir of singingboys and men.
Then he invited Melissa to make a return for his song by singing Sappho's Ode to Aphrodite.
Within a few minutes the first dish was set before his couch, and, as plenty of good stories were told, and an admirable band of flute-playing and singing girls filled up the pauses in the conversation, he enjoyed his meal.
Whereupon he danced out of the room, singing a tune.
The singing had fallen on her agitated soul like the oil poured by the mariner on the sea to still the foaming breakers.
Just before raising the knocker he had been singing cheerfully to himself.
The blood throbbed so fiercely in his temples, and there was such a singing in his ears, that for some little time he neither saw nor heard what was going on.
The Second Advent may therefore be expected before the date assigned by Prophet Baxter, and we shall probably soon hear the faithful singing "Lo he comes in clouds descending.
A gentleman who was feeding the fish at sea heard a sailor singing "Britannia rules the waves.
What more pious than singing the praises of Mary and all the saints in a temple where idolaters had celebrated the glories of all the gods and goddesses of Olympus?
The old man took the child in his arms and carried him to the big house, singing softly in his ear all the way; and somehow or other the song seemed to melt and mingle in the youngster's dreams.
The little timid woman began a familiar tune, and had the privilege ofsinging the first two lines alone.
As the strains of the singing died away, the voices of Hugh Hoskyns and Bob Trevannion were heard in no gentle tones threatening the preacher with violence if he did not give up the key, so as to afford them free egress and ingress.
During the singing of that hymn Mr. Boyce very coolly stepped to the door, locked it, and put the key in his pocket.
It seemed to him that this was just one miracle the more; she had become English because she was singing what Shakespeare wrote.
Only they sing as well as they possibly can, not only because they love it, but because if they don't they will be dropped on to, and if they continue not singing their best, will lose their place which they have so hardly won.
If I marry Michael I must go on singing as a professional singer, and not become an amateur--the Viscountess Comber, who sings so charmingly.
And even as the words are in my mouth I try to imagine myself not singing any more, and I can't.
Yet it was all as clean-cut in his mind as etched lines, and round each line sprang flowers and singing birds.
Unaccustomed as she was to her accompanist, his trained ear told him that she was singing perfectly at ease, and was completely at home with her player.
Then Sylvia sang, and both those who cared to hear exquisite singing and those who did not were alike silent, for this was a prayer to the gods they all worshipped; and Falbe played, and there was a quartet of strings.
His knowledge of the music enabled him to wake the singing bird of memory in his head, and before long flute and horn and string and woodwind began to make themselves heard in his inner ear.
He knew what her singing meant to her, and, from their conversation together just now, how keen was her eagerness for the strict judgment of those who knew, how she loved that austere pinnacle of daylight.
I suppose that, ideally, if one loves music as I do one ought to be able to do one's very best, whether one is singing professionally or not, but it is hardly possible.
Your voice sounds a lot like that of a man I heard singing in Farewell yesterday.
Turkey in--" The singing stopped in the middle of a line.
But a singing voice is far different from a speaking voice, and Racey had not uttered a single conversational word in the stranger's presence.
True, the stranger must have heard him singingto Miss Dale.
In measured tread they danced, they swayed, they moved, in perfect time to the singing of the squaws and the hollow sounding drum.
When the music increased, the singing of the squaws shrieked higher and shriller, the dancer thrust forth his head and hissed.
She heard a boyish voice singing softly as he rode about the cavie.
We meet not, on our upland moor, The singing Maid of Helicon, You may not hear her music pure Float on the mountain meres withdrawn; The Muse of Greece, the Muse is gone!
Now singing as he charged the foe, Now in the bay, Where safe in the shore-water's flow His galleys lay.
Many were the comments passed on our singing powers, and truly the men sang well, and marched even better.
Without wishing to make invidious distinctions, it may be said that Corporal Henderson was the heart and soul of the party, while his singing of Chevalier's songs was absolutely first-rate.
Thereupon the shouts of joy broke out, and cries, and there was singing and dancing and drinking.
They read all their verses in a singing tone, and the quatrains of the twelve-syllable verse are read with the motif of the comintan, which is their national song.
They ate and drank, as at the most splendid banquet; and then spent the balance of the day in relating and singing the prowess of the deceased; then each one went home.
The custom of singing when reading poetry is a practice of China, and of all the Asiatic peoples whom I have visited.
They are very fond of singing the passion or history of the death of Jesus Christ, which is written in Tagálog verse.
They walk about the altar; they tremble and belch, while singing the "miminsad," until they fall senseless to the ground like those stricken with epileptic fits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "singing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
